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Agencies throughout McLennan County stepped up efforts Friday to enforce the state’s Move Over/Slow Down law and remind motorists to give space to emergency vehicles and Texas Department of Transportation workers.

A woman was rescued from an accused pimp Wednesday after undercover McLennan County Sheriff’s Office deputies determined she was being used in a human trafficking operation, Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.

A Midway Independent School District student was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of showing a sexually explicit image of a 17-year-old girl to classmates last month after threatening to do so if she ended their relationship, Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said.

A 29-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon at a Child Protective Services office on allegations that he smoked methamphetamine in the presence of his two young children, an arrest affidavit states.

A Waco Police officer on leave since his arrest on a prostitution charge last month was arrested again Thursday after investigators say they found a recording the officer made of himself having sex with a prostitute in November.

A Waco man indicted for an alleged 2015 sexual assault in Hewitt was arrested over the weekend by Waco police on a retaliation charge, alleging the man tried to intimidate a woman in the pending sexual assault case, an arrest affidavit states.

With a stack of nearly 10 cold case files sitting in his office, McLennan County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Steve January and the department’s newly established cold case unit vows to give answers to murder victims’ families that have lingered for years.

A 20-year-old woman was arrested after she was involved in a mid-January fight with another person and sprayed mace into a car, spraying a 10-year-old child in South Waco, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

A wanted man with ties to a “1 percenter” motorcycle club was arrested late Thursday night in Bruceville on felony burglary and domestic abuse charges out of Missouri, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.

A Bruceville-Eddy woman who allegedly had drugs hidden in her body cavity was arrested early Wednesday morning after she threatened to kill a man who gave her a ride from Lacy Lakeview to Waco, Lacy Lakeview Police Chief John Truehitt said.

McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara is warning local residents after two people reported receiving bogus phone calls from a man posing as a deputy, claiming the residents missed jury duty for a murder trial last week and owed a fine.

Hewitt police are seeking help to identify two women accused in a Walmart gift card scheme in which they stole $2,000 from at least two Walmart locations on Jan. 18, Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said.

A Waco man was arrested over the weekend for two summer sexual assaults against a woman after the suspect and woman both tested positive for the same sexually transmitted disease, arrest affidavits state.

Search warrants released Tuesday offer new details of Waco police Officer Willy Lopez’s arrest on a prostitution charge last week and include an allegation that he had previously recorded a woman investigators know to be a prostitute having sex with him.

A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to the arrest of a Waco man who allegedly solicited teenage girls for sex through online communications, an arrest affidavit states.

Waco Independent School District Police Chief Ken Boatman is on paid administrative leave as of Friday as district officials investigate allegations involving an inappropriate work environment, Waco ISD spokesman Kyle DeBeer announced late Friday afternoon.

A Waco man arrested last week on a misdemeanor family violence charge is now facing two first-degree felony robbery charges in incidents late last month and early this month, according to arrest affidavits.

A Chilton man and a Speegleville man were arrested Monday in two unrelated online solicitation of a minor stings. In both cases, police said men solicited sex from undercover officers posing as teenage girls through social media accounts.